Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [was/were] under [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the cyclist was under no obligation to give the constable his name and address , and although the constable is perfectly at liberty to ask his questions , the citizen is under no obligation to answer them . |
| 2 | Therefore the buyer was under no obligation to buy it . |
| 3 | This was the time when the future of the course was under a cloud owing to Mrs Topham 's negotiations to sell the site for building development . |
| 4 | The defence has also succeeded where the employee was under no pressure to take a particular risk but deliberately chose a dangerous method of working . |
| 5 | Although there was an express clause in the employment contract by which the employee was under a duty " to promote , extend and develop the interests of the company " the court would clearly have reached the same conclusion on the basis of the implied duty of fidelity . |
| 6 | In proceedings against him by the Attorney-General it was held in the Court of Appeal that the charge was unlawful and that the defendant was under no obligation to pay it . |
| 7 | Recently , the gallery was under the threat of total closure as the centre had lost its local funding . |
| 8 | By the time they had reached his flat the sun was under the yard-arm . |
| 9 | Jotan moved so that the tip of the sword was under the dwarf 's chin , forcing it up . |
| 10 | This means that the defect is judged in the light of the scientific and technical knowledge at the time the product was under the control of the person seeking to rely on the defence . |
| 11 | However , Stevenage — within Hertfordshire — still had ‘ new town ’ status at this time and development in the town was under the control of the Stevenage Development Corporation ( now transferred to the Commission for the New Towns ) . |
| 12 | The following work carried out ( or directly and actively supervised ) : ( a ) either at least 60 personal injury instructions in the 5 years prior to the application or at least 36 personal injury instructions in the 3 years prior to the application — in either case , no more than half of the instructions should be in medical negligence cases ; ( b ) at least one personal injury case where the award or settlement was approved by the court because the plaintiff was under a disability , eg a child ; and ( c ) at least ten cases set down and ready for trial , of which at least two must have involved a dispute over liability . |
| 13 | ( iii ) In ( a ) or ( b ) above the experience must include : ( a ) at least one case where the award or settlement was approved by the court because the plaintiff was under a disability ; and either ( b ) at least two cases of maximum severity ; or ( c ) at least four cases where the value of the claim exceeded £100,000 . |
| 14 | This criticism is part of a wider attack on the use of classification of functions as a criterion for deciding issues such as the availability of judicial remedies to control administrative action ( the remedy of certiorari was at one time said to be available only if the decision-maker was under a duty to act ‘ judicially ’ ) , or the applicability of the rules of natural justice in particular circumstances ( sometimes said to apply only to ‘ judicial functions ’ ) . |
| 15 | It did not follow that , because the architect was under a duty to act fairly in making a valuation for the certificates , he was acting in a judicial capacity and therefore immune from liability to his principal for loss caused to him by a negligent valuation . |
| 16 | The dog was under the kitchen table , gobbling scraps of meat given to him by Mrs Elswick , busy at the stove . |
| 17 | Rug-making in the Balkans can be traced back to the time when the peninsula was under the control of the Turkish empire . |
| 18 | If the authority was under a duty to make a decision on the matters in issue between the parties , this duty will revive when the decision is quashed and it will then be for the authority to make a fresh decision . |
| 19 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that the appropriate means of achieving fairness to an accused with regard to disclosure to the defence of material in the prosecution 's possession was a matter to be determined by the particular legislature , executive and judiciary concerned ; that although the Jamaican practice , particularly in relation to inconsistent previous statements , would normally be an acceptable means of achieving such fairness it did not extend to every situation in which fairness required the prosecution to make material available to the defence ; that where the prosecution intended a witness 's evidence to be based on his statement to the police and to deviate significantly from his deposition , the prosecution was under a duty to supply the defence with a copy of the statement before the trial ; and that , therefore , since the deceased 's husband and sister had given evidence inconsistent with their statements , and important testimony had been adduced from them which had not been foreshadowed in their depositions , the failure to disclose their statements to the defence constituted a material irregularity ( post , pp. 161H — 162A , B , B–C , 165C–E ) . |
| 20 | The first was that , as Hall had told the architects he had met before the competition , the Government were under no obligation to employ any of the successful competitors . |
| 21 | The Christians belonging to the millet-i-Rum were under the authority of the Patriarch of Constantinople at the top level , and locally under their own bishops . |
| 22 | The school-hole was under the floor of the old shed with ‘ Canteen ’ on the door . |
| 23 | On June 1 President Ranasinghe Premadasa had held talks with LTTE leaders in Colombo , and on June 6 the government conceded a key LTTE demand , announcing that it would dissolve the North-Eastern Provincial Council ( elected in late 1988 , when the province was under the control of Indian troops , and in the face of an LTTE election boycott — see p. 37007 ) and hold fresh elections . |
| 24 | Thereafter Offa assumed direct rule of Hwiccian territory in the 780s , and by the 790s the province was under the command of an individual known simply as dux ( CS 272 , 273 : S 146 ) , but it is worth emphasizing how long this process took . |
| 25 | The Court of Appeal of Hong Kong held that the bank was under an obligation to return the deposit and the bank appealed : |
| 26 | The book was under the bench on one side of the shed . |
| 27 | The Treasury was under a cloud from 1940 to 1943 . |
| 28 | They believed that the land was under the care and guardianship of the people who used it and lived on it . |
| 29 | The weekend was under a heatwave according to the Oban Times of August 25th , 1876 . |
| 30 | As Dan stated , ‘ The target was under a patch of woods that looked like all the other woods around , so we had to drop on some co-ordinates by a railway track . |